Raphaelesque

Raphael's power, such as it characters in his mind; it is "Raphaelesque," properly so called; but Titian's power is simply the power of doing right.

The Two Paths

"Caractacus" cartoon, were to be seen in this new effort, where, as has been said, the English king stands like a Raphaelesque archangel in the midst of the design.

Watts (1817-1904)

Raphaelesque, -- tender grace and melancholy; but about these frank blue eyes and full red lips lurked the good-nature of a healthy school-boy, the quaint, unchecked humor of a man upon whose life had fallen the sunshine of prosperity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865

The effort to be Raphaelesque ruined the effect of many a noble piece of technique, after that.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

In Italy the art had almost died out in the early sixteenth century, but revived in full and florid force under the Raphaelesque influence.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

What Mozart, with his Raphaelesque imagination and temperament, would have been for church music had he lived at a different time and in different surroundings, or risen above his own, can easily be imagined.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

Women who have treated of maternity in books or pictures have usually handled it in exactly the same spirit in which it is commonly handled by men – from what may be termed the conventional or Raphaelesque point of view.

Marriage as a Trade

And I have always been struck by the attitude of the women who have discussed it – an attitude which, judged by the conventional or Raphaelesque standard, might be described as typically unfeminine and unmaternal – since their sympathies were invariably and unreservedly on the side of the erring mother, and I cannot remember having heard a single woman's voice raised in defence of the right to its life of the unwanted child.

Marriage as a Trade

It is the formal Raphaelesque idea; the other and much better one shows a division of the picture into thirds.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

This is the Raphaelesque progression, and if fifty persons were asked who was the greatest painter, forty-nine would say Raphael, without discrimination.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures